https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg802leey8o
Choo Choo, all aboard the steam train! Younger people will remember this train from the Harry Potter movies as the Hogwarts express and seeing it travel across the Glenfinnan Viaduct in the north west of Scotland. This magnificent old steam train has travelled around the world on tour, including visiting Australia. I recall it arriving by ship and passing through Liverpool station in western Sydney in the late 1980’s. My family went to see the train passing through our local railway station and the crowd was enormous. It’s amazing how many people love these fantastic old steam trains.
It’s lovely to be able to ride on a steam train with the windows open with the smell of the smoke wafting through the carriage. Mind you, you must put the windows up for going through a tunnel or the carriage with fill with smoke and the smell of coal. My father told me as a child he stuck his head out the window of the steam train and his face got all dirty with the smoke. Just great when you’re going somewhere special with your mum, lol.
I envy the people getting to ride on this magnificent train and I hope they have beautiful weather to enjoy the experience. If you live in England and are a train enthusiast then you will be making sure that you get a ticket for the train.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A3_4472_Flying_Scotsman
